Visiting the Hill Farmstead Brewery
Earlier this week, Shaun Hill and Owen Miller were kind enough to show me around the Hill Farmstead Brewery in Greensboro Bend, Vermont. It was a fun (albeit brief) visit to a very cool, very unique craft brewery.
2010 Beer-complishments
Last December, I posted my Beer World Bucket List for 2010. Basically, it was a look at beer-related things to try, beers to taste, and beery pilgrimages to make. A year after the fact, it’s time to check back in and see how I did. If you can grant me a little bit of navel-gazing, [...]
Beer Favorites of 2010
We’re post-Thanksgiving and pre-Christmas, which means it’s the time of year for “Best of 2010″ lists. At my day job as a bookseller, I’ve been flooded with lists of the best fiction, best non-fiction, prize-winners and other lists of books that you’ve just got to own. At my local video and record stores, they’re getting [...]
Allow Me to Introduce Spruce
Spruce has a long and colorful history in beer, and there’s more than a handful of ways – commercial and otherwise – to get your hands on authentic spruce beers.
Baxter Brewing Prepares to Launch
Baxter Brewing, located in the historic Bates Mill in Lewiston, is very much under construction. Still, a visit to the brewery on Monday left me confident that the place will be up and running in no time at all.
Building Your Beer Bookshelf – 2010 Addendum
Building Your Beer Bookshelf I. Memoirs and Travelogues II. Beer Guides III. Homebrewing Guides IV. Odds and Ends — When I started writing for the Ratebeer Hop Press last year, I kicked off my column with a four-part series on some of the best beer books available. Since the publishing business stops for no one, [...]
CloneBrews (2nd Edition) by Tess and Mark Szamatulski
Despite my ostensive role as a beer and books blogger, it’s been a while since I posted any sort of beer book review here on the Hop Press. Well, that changes now! Storey has recently published a new edition of CloneBrews, an update to a homebrewing handbook that’s been around for over a decade. How [...]
Iced Venti Light Ice Valencia Black Ale
Tuesday morning, USA Today broke the news that Starbucks – your non-local local coffee joint – is experimenting with serving wine and beer at stores.
Social(ized) Drinking
Ever wanted to own your own brewpub? If you throw some money towards the Black Star Co-op, your dreams can come true. Located in the heart of Texas, the Austin-based Black Star purports to be the first enterprise of it’s kind – a brewpub that is owned and directed by it’s members. Now, I want [...]
An Interview with Rising Tide’s Nathan Sanborn
A few months ago I introduced you to Rising Tide, one of the newest additions to Maine’s craft brewing landscape. Of the three breweries I mentioned in that initial column, Rising Tide has made the most progress – the first batch of their flagship beer, Ishmael, is on select shelves in southern Maine. The man [...]